Illustrations of Indian Ornithology. 



other particulars. I have therefore given it provisionallj^ the name of malabarica from its 

 habitat, which is chiefly the forests of Malabar, and the other high jungles of the western 

 coast. I add what Mr. Blyth says on their_ points of difference. " The two species agree 

 exactly in size and colouring of feathers, except that yours has a yellow throat in both 

 sexes ; bu the form of the bill is essentially different, and there are several other distinctions. 

 Tr. aromaticus verus (from Bengal andArracan) has a very much stronger bill, the corneous 

 portion of which reaches back to the frontal feathers ; its colour is glaucous green with the 

 soft and tumid portion at the sides of the upper mandible vermilion, forming a large and 

 conspicuous spot; in your species the basal half of the hillis sok and tumid ; aromaticus 

 has the eye surrounded by a naked space of a livid blue, in yours the space surrounding 

 the eyes is feathered to the orbit ; lastly aromaticus has the legs and toes very bright ver- 

 milion contrasting forcibly with the red of those of bicindns, whereas those of your species 

 are described as ' lake.' 



